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Cornelius Castoriadis Quotes

1922–1997 France

Cornelius Castoriadis (March 11, 1922 – December 26, 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher.

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Communists
Philosophers

Also known as: Castoriadis

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There is no proper meaning … every expression is essentially tropic.

The Imaginary Institution of Society (1975)

The person who is in an infantile level is the person who is apolitical and conformist … the person who replaces the private father with the social anonymous father.

Where Ego is, Id must spring forth.

The Imaginary Institution of Society (1975)

Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human beings really make their own history, and then the task of theory will not be directed to discovering 'laws', but to the elucidation of the conditions with in which human activity unfolds.

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